Thursday, June 10, 2010

1 thessalonians

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Pizza 56 m high...so how tall is this person?

It's a trick of the light isn't it... our eyes that see in 3 dimensions, and normally perceive depth are tricked because in the photo there is no way of showing depth and perspective accept by blurring objects in the back or foreground....

I wonder whether sometimes our relationship with God is like that…Whether sometime we get a sense of false perspectivewhether sometimes our view of God is dwarfed by our feelings and experience and that our God is just way too small and sometimes our problem in the perspective of where we stand can seem so much bigger…

TESTIMONYChristian when I was 21 – grown up in a Catholic church and attending a Catholic school but no real understanding of what the whole things was on about…I guess for me it all came to a head when I was taking my final exams... In RE, I got a grade U…upgradeableI took that to mean that I did not understand Christianity and I didn’t understand God…so after 16 I turned my back

At 21 people entered my life who lived out the truth, and I was converted…But it’s only looking back on it I realize now that my God was just way too small.

Sure I knew that God had created the universe and me, and you… that type of thing, but I struggled to trust him with the every day things...I guess it’s that PERSPECTIVE PROBLEMWhen I put my problems and stood them against God, my problems dwarfed godHe was in the distance… and my problems looked much bigger…

Now the obvious answer to this problem is one of relationship.Donna Marie brought this up last week, the more we are open to relationship with God the more that relationship develops an attitude of trust, and we come to a realization that our God is bigger....Relationship is the key to seeing your God as bigger Relationship is key to shifting the perspective of your problems on to his Will being done

so the question is then how do you increase this relationship with God…How do you get to know God more…?The standard answers relate to spending time with God.Pray. MORERead your Bible…. MOREWorship …MORE

While all these things are good and they do help, the reality is that in the world we live in it’s far easier to access these things,To attend Church regularlyTo worship with some great music in the style of your choosingAnd to read bibles in many ways with countless different translationsWe have more churches in a town like Blenheim than supermarketsWe have christen books shopsChristian TVChristian radioAnd even Christian fashionAnd yet still I encounter people everyday whose God is just way too small.

Time, access and Knowledge in themselves don’t seem to deepen the relationship

SMALL GOD< SELF FAITHIt's an important idea to get your head round because if your God is not big enough then you'll start to think everything that happens in your faith is about you...you'll think worship is about the music you likesharing the gospel is about you doing all the work. Like a sales man getting the dealyou'll think prayer is about what you need... Is your God big enough?

Were beginning to look at Paul’s Letter to the Thessalonians…

I think it might help us in understanding some ways in which we can increase the size of our God.

How it came into being... THE CHURCH OF THE THESSALONIANS...A lot of what we don know outside of the letter comes from the book of Acts chapter 17.When Paul arrived there he immediate went to work in the synagogues gatherings of the Jews, talking to them about Jesus...We also know that he went to work in the marketplace – probably using his position as a tent maker – or leather worker to share the gospel.

Three weeks later a disturbance occurred – some of the Jews from the synagogue took offence at what Paul was saying and basically drove him out of town…

This left a handful of baby Christians--probably no more than 2 months old in their faith--all alone in the center of a pagan community. So after Paul settles in the Greek city of Corinth, he writes these two letters to his friends in Thessalonica. You have got to wonder, what could Paul possibly do in three weeks?How could Paul possibly develop these people enough to be able to stand on their own two feet and to trust in God…?

READINGRelationships take time don’t they?Building trust in God is a long term process….I mean if I could be part of a church and church school for 16 years and come to the end of that time and get a U in my RE exam you have got to wonder what these Thessalonians could possibly know about God…

How could they possibly no the intricacies of the Christian faith and come to that depth of relationship that we all need…3 weeks is just not enough or is it….

But there was evidence that there faith was not only real, but alive and that in that time and the few months that followed from Paul being among them to writing this letter there faith was growing.

They were bearing fruit...1 They were an example to other believers – 2 they had turned from idols3 they were serving God

They certainly don’t have it all together but there perspective on God was causing them to reflect his work in their lives

BACK IN PERSPECTIVEIn this first chapter we can see some objects which should help us put the picture of our God back into focus, that should help us generate some depth perception, that should help us see that we truly serve an awesome, incredible, wonderful God

V3 …In their Christian lives Paul has seen first hand… in the 3 weeks he was with themThe work they do which is a result of their faithThe labor which is a result of their loveAnd Their steadfastness which comes from the hope they have

They worked on their faith…didn’t just sit back and expect it to happenNow we know that these guys faced opposition, I guess one result of that is that we can often just back off completely.I mean no body wants to be disliked...But in spite of this they pressed on.They say faith is like a muscle? It needs to be worked, and some of the best training you can do on your muscles is resistance training…Having your faith tested will deepen your relationship with God

On top of that, what they face causes them to pull together – they don’t go through their problems aloneBut with each other, They love each other,I think we all know that loving others is not always that easy.It’s easy to love those who are like us but people who are different can be scarythe reality is that is loving those who are different we open ourselves up to God more; it grounds us in god’s Love and deepens our relationship.

To top it off they had hope, In the midst of the situation the good news that Jesus has died, risen from the grave, ascended to be with His father and promised that he would return again for them was giving them hope.Like walking around in a dense fog and then suddenly being lifted out of it they were able to see a future for them... A future that was secure in God.The glimpse of the end, gave them a purpose for living in the present, persecution, trials and problems were temporary

V4they were chosen…Chosen by God... this is one of them realities that we often find it hard to get our heads around.And far too often we take it as meaning something it does not...I think most of us have had an experience of being chosen at some stage...Being picked for the football team...It's often down to skill, ability, worthinessyou are chosen because you are good...In God's reality that is not what it means...

Another way we could look at this is that in terms of a relationship, God has chosen to have a relationship with you...Whether you choose to return that relationship is your business...many don'tMany just choose a relationship that sees God as a cosmic butler...They choose to respond to God when they have needs...Is that really relationship, or using someone?

What it means to be chosen is that God has done 99.99% of the work in building this relationship - but we still need to respond.He sent his son to die in your place...he didn't have to do this , this was his choiceNow none of us deserve this, In God's eye's if this was the 1st 15 he was picking we wouldn't even deserve to be on the bench.But God thinks you are worth it...Not because of any merit of our own, but because He is God, it's pure grace.

God is committed to this relationship, to help it to happen he even send his Spirit, to help and guide us.

Our response is the issue; will we accept the fact God has chosen us to have relationship with him?It's our perspective of God that is too small, not out God.

V6the final way that they developed their relationship was through the subtle art of Imitation. This seems to have been something that Paul saw as being key to helping those Young in the faith....They didn't have the amount of knowledge and the depth of time in this relationship with God, so Paul calls upon them to imitate me...He was a role model of what the Christian faith should look like of what relationship with God should look like...And because of that not only would Paul sought to deepen his relationship with God, so would they...Even at this tender stage in their faith the Church of Thessalonica was a role model.A witness, they were being looked atpeople were talking of how they were living for Jesus.We are all role models in the faith to other people...I think some of us are bad role models... not all the time. But when we loose our ragmaybe we model something that is not Christ like.When we snub people it doesn't speak of Christ's love.

When we would rather argue and condemn people than show Christ’s love we are being bad role models...I have to watch this, you have to watch this. That fact that we are role models should cause us to seek to deepen our relationship.

I want to be like Jesus, because people see Jesus in Me.I want to be more like Jesus because when people look at me that is what I want them to see.

You don't need a degree in theology, a dog collar or a halo to do this; you just need to be open to God's relationship...He's done the work; we just need to be open to receiving that workto letting God be seen in us.To changing our perspective.

If you want to increase your depth perceptions of the majesty of GodThen live out your faithLove those around youLive in light of the hope you haveRecognize your chosen ness – God wants relationship with youImitate those who have been walking the walk longer than you and be a good role model too others – seek to be Christ like

At the end of the day what will increase the size of God in your life is the depth of your convictionsThe Thessalonians were absolutely convinced that there God was a big God able to work miracles in their situation, To sustain them until he returns or take them up to be with him at death.Because of the depth of these convictions they were failing to surrender absolutely to him.If you are mildly convicted you will be mildly surrendered and you God will be too small. But let me assure you we serve a big God, if you can't see it, then it's your perspective that wrong...

Men are the ones who create evil on Earth. It is the choices they make which enslave their souls to hell. And that's why you are continually reincarnated. Welcome to the Matrix.7 billion in 2011. Only 1 billion in 1800 and 2 billion in 1900.Population explosion is a clue::::The gods are sending everyone back for The End.There must be some purgatory-like place. Or individual. Like an animal.Now the gods have sent everyone back to try for one final time to fix their problems and ascend into heaven. Avoiding an animal would have been a big positive because those thrust into this decayed enviornment have less of a chance than those who enjoyed the god's generosity of a slowly decaying enviornment with frightening clues, like the Depression, World at War, the Holocaust, etc. Anything that can get the poeple frightened and praying is a good. thing. Contentment never motivated anyone.

As we approach the Apocalypse the gods are removing "wrath of god" material from xtian dogma.As we see wickedness spread throughout the country, like preditory behavior, godlessness, social changes, etc, using cable TV and the spread of "Californication" as justification, they changed xtianity, appropriatly with Catholicism first.xtianity has changed radically in the 20th century, and everyone should be mindful of the way it was, because the people are in a process of slipping out of god's favor into a state of Damnation, from which the vast majority will never survive.They used to scare people and make them too afraid to make mistakes. Now people aren't afraid of anything and don't think twice about doing something wicked and evil which will hurt their chances.

Good god says a ceiling on time for everyone (see below). Evil god still gives hope for immortality to people who subscribed to preditory behavior:::Immortality if you are right versus a couple centuries partying at best even if you change now.Occems Razor.Due to institutional evil the closer we get to The End the more evil everyone incurrs (with some variation due to behavior) which limits the time for everyone.Probably the children who fix their problems and ascend into heaven as well. Experiencing the evil of modern life in the 20th century costed them, for which limits are placed. They are not the same as their innocent peasantry ancestors from the Old World.You people have fucked up bad by not getting out before the 20th century.Just because the gods have to break some eggs doesn't mean they are evil. As management there are hard decisions that must be made. But they used this omelette and sold it to people as temptation, who went out and did things they shouldn't have done thinking being preditory was the way to "earn" their way into heaven.Employment charity:::Was W able to do his job as President?I suspect there are many frat-boy types who couldn't or wouldn't study nor do the work necessary so they gained this "benefit" telepathically. This could have been extended to their professional life as well::In most of these cases they don't have what it takes to do their jobs.I think employment charity is FAR more common than people may believe. Another example how they tempted people in this manner is the procurement of sexual relations.Keep raping these poor girls. You're going to end up as one in your next life.

Another feature which the Gods offer as a clue is very foreboading and ominous. Mt. Zion is a mountain to the north of Diablo (the eye of The Beast) and one which has a working quarry at its base. Consistant with the decay we experience in society, Mt. Zion is being eaten away, slowly stripped of its resources, until one day paradise will be gone forever.

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